Yeah I bet this would've killed the series if it released. Cool to see these assets thoughDOOMbros sure dodged a bullet with this one
Its popular? Ive never seen this opinion espoused until now. I love Quake 4 and Serious 1+2 but I dont understand this take.It's popular to parrot all this shit, but the fact of the matter is, this would have been way more like Doom than the 2016 Hell-flavored Serious Sam game we got. I'm not going to go so far as to say 2016 Doom was a bad game - in fact, it did eventually grow on me - but I can say that every Doom game after it was progressively worse than the last. Dark Ages has absolutely nothing left of the Doom formula.
"Call of Doom" comes from that era's journalists trying to sound edgy and funny. Back then, they'd trash games and ruin their perception for lels, like the world is one big Reddit forum. The actual prototype footage was rough, befitting an alpha, but looked like a great shooter-to-be - gritty and grounded.
And this concept art is wonderful.
I like DooM 3 and its aesthetic, so im curious about how this game could have been. On some concept view, it is not looking bad. Now, if the rumors are true and it was practically CoD but with demons, then yeah, it was a good cakll to scrap it.
I liked DooM 2016, it not a bad game and Eternal is even better. My only problem is that the foruma they developed on these past two games belongs more to Quake than DooM, but probably the Quake IP didnt ring many bells in comparison to DooM. I really hope they return to a more slow, tight resource management and more complex level design like the OG DooM are known for even to this day, and let the quick frantic always shooting and jumping stuff to Quake.
We can have the best of two worlds.
Doom 2016 and everything thereafter became a series of arena fights - hence my comparison to Serious Sam. It's not necessarily a knock - I don't hate Serious Sam at all - but it's very far removed from the Doom formula.Its popular? Ive never seen this opinion espoused until now. I love Quake 4 and Serious 1+2 but I dont understand this take.
So Eternal and TDA were subpar in comparison, I'm not sure how that makes 2016 less good than Q4 and SS, outside the speed of SS, that was better, but it didnt have the atmosphere or world building of Doom 2016 so![]()